"Nigerian President Blames Phone Company for Boko Haram Attacks", 8 Mar 2016

...Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari put some of the blame for Boko Haram’s rise on an unlikely perpetrator: South African mobile phone giant MTN, which has more than 62 million subscribers in Nigeria...“You know how the unregistered [SIM cards] are being used by terrorists, and between 2009 and today at least 10,000 Nigerians were killed by Boko Haram,” Buhari said [recently] at a joint news conference with South African President Jacob Zuma. Buhari, who was sworn in as president last May, claimed that MTN’s delay contributed directly to Boko Haram’s success in killing innocent civilians. “Unfortunately, MTN was very, very slow and contributed to the casualties,” he said at the news conference...